Defend vs Defund - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) To ward off, repel (an attack or attacker).
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
*:The vertue is, that neither steele, nor stone / The stroke thereof from entrance may defend .
(obsolete) To prevent, to keep (from doing something).
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To prohibit, forbid.
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*:Broder said sir launcelot wete ye wel I am ful lothe to departe oute of this realme / but the quene hath defended me soo hyhely / that me semeth she wille neuer be my good lady as she hath ben
To ward off attacks from; to fight to protect; to guard.
To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of.
(legal) To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
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, title= (sports) To focus one's energies and talents on preventing opponents from scoring, as opposed to focusing on scoring.
(sports) To attempt to retain a title, or attempt to reach the same stage in a competition as one did in the previous edition of that competition.
(poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.
To cancel funding for.
* 1996 , Amy Gutmann, Dennis Frank Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement
* 2003 , David E Lewis, Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design
* 2010 , "Coming back to bite him", The Economist , 14 Oct 2010:
As verbs the difference between defend and defund
is that defend is to ward off, repel (an attack or attacker) while defund is to cancel funding for.defend
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(en verb)Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave, passage=Philip Miles, defending , said: "This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time."}}
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(en verb)- Did the Arizona legislators satisfy the principles of deliberation when they decided to defund organ transplants?
- However, when Congress has attempted to defund a presidential agency, presidents have responded by creating new agencies to perform similar functions.
- So Republicans are planning instead a strategy of “defunding ” the new health law.